Josh Moon: Conservatives lack reason in gun debate

1:45 AM,
Feb. 3, 2013

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I was having a conversation the other day with a conservative friend when the topic of the Midland City hostage situation and murder came up.

"The guy's a wacko," my friend said. "There's no way someone like him should be walking around free and owning a gun. Someone should have locked him up years ago."

With the information we have on Jimmy Lee Dykes, the Dale County man who police say shot and killed a school bus driver and took hostage a 5-year-old boy, it's hard to argue with my friend. And I don't know how anyone could disagree. ...